"I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the neighboring states, but they lost the state."
— Elections

January 1, 1970

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Abraham Lincoln, letter to Iowa governor James W. Grimes (July 12, 1856); in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), vol. 2, p. 348.